alternative to the fopen() hack in autoloaders

Ahoi, I have written an RFC for a more efficient solution to get rid of the common fopen() hack inside autoloaders: if ($fp = @fopen($file, 'r', true)) { fclose($fp); include $file; } Here is the gist of the proposal: In order to solve the above issues this RFC proposes the addition of a new construct/function for now called “autoload_include” for lack of a better name that largely behaves like the “include” does today with the following differences, that when the include failed because of a missing file no warning is raised and php null is returned. Further details can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoload_include As stated in the RFC, I am not happy with the name "autoload_include". Suggestions welcome! regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org